How did you come to love Firefly?

POSTED BY: serenitylass
UPDATED: Friday, April 7, 2006 17:28
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SERENITYLASS

Friday, April 7, 2006 9:57 AM

Wow, it seems that just like me, most of you were hooked after just one episode.
Like you Arya, I have never been part of a group like this but everyone here seems so nice, I can't help but come back. Plus the fact that being here allays my FF withdrawals.
For now I am out there spreading the FF word, lending the series to anyone who will listen to me. I havn't found anyone who hasn't liked it yet.

STDOUBT

Friday, April 7, 2006 10:26 AM

Sorry to go off-topic, but Arya mentioned Belgium.
That's where the guy who makes elive is from!
It's an operating system code-named Serenity that
I have been recommending:(I can't help it!)
http://www.elivecd.org/gb/Download/0.4.2/
:runs away:

ARYA

Friday, April 7, 2006 10:59 AM

Small country, big minds...

(excluding: belgian politicians. Including: guy who invented Belgian Chocolates! That must've been a genius!)

THUNDER

Friday, April 7, 2006 11:05 AM

The first time I saw Firefly was on TV when it first came out. I caught the end of Train Job when Mal put the guy through the engine. I thought it might be something different & I was right.

FLATTOP

Friday, April 7, 2006 11:59 AM

I'd heard (good) rumors via various waves about Firefly back when it was in production, and thought I'd eventually catch an episode & see for myself.
Surfing channels a few years later (just before the BDM came out), I catch a glimpse of some old guy being stopped with a derringer in his pocket (interesting), followed in short order by Mal & Kaylee making their entrance. Mal looking all 'Wild, Wild, West' (from the original series), I stopped to watch.
As soon as Mal and Inara began talking together, I understood pretty much everything (He's the Capt., Inara's for hire, Kaylee works for Mal (but not for hire...) personalities, implied back story (I have an active imagination, and Joss puts in such meaningful detail)), and was hooked.
My wife asked what it was, and was hooked. Our daughter is a hold-out, but only to be difficult; I know she likes it.
Then we found out Firefly had been canceled.
Bought the DVD's & watch them over & over.
Does anyone know if you can wear out a DVD?

Do you know what your sin is Captain?
Aww hell. I'm a big fan of all seven.

MRSELLARS

Friday, April 7, 2006 12:00 PM

Knew about it during the short lived TV run, but was literally traveling too much (still do) and never was able to connect with it since I was usually on an airplane whenever it was showing. Of course, if FOX hadn't jacked the schedule around I might have been able to catch a few eps, but that's a moot point.

Anyhow, once it disappeared from the small screen it faded from memory, though it would come back around to the forefront now and again for no apparent reason. I would occasionally find myself thinking that it sounded like a great show and that I really wished I could have seen it. Apparently, even though I had never seen anything but a few brief ads on FOX, I had been smitten.

Fast forward a bit. My kid comes down with the flu and can't go to school, therefore there's really no way for me to concentrate on writing that day because I need to tend to her. Get her settled in on the couch, switch on the set and surf the channels for a few. Eventually I land on Sci-Fi and much to my delight they are smack in the middle of a midday Firefly marathon.

The munchkin and I watched the 4 or 5 episodes that were being aired and were both immediately hooked. Less than a week later I purchased the FF DVD's and the Serenity DVD. I've lost count of how many times I've watched them at this point.

As an odd side note: I have a Serenity keychain that I picked up from a freebie table when doing a guest author appearance at a Sci-Fi/Fantasy con right around the time the movie was being released. Somehow, though, I had never put two and two together and didn't realize the connection between FF and Serenity until after the fact.

MRS

THUNDER

Friday, April 7, 2006 12:32 PM

I was hooked right away. I bought the series at Bestbuy,I found it on accident,I told a few people. They thought a western in space sounded stupid. I lent them the series and they were instantly hooked .For some reason it's a big hit across the board with different group's of people.

JYA

Friday, April 7, 2006 1:41 PM

Wow! What a trip to see how many people have come new to the 'verse, and how gratifying to know that I was not wrong in the beginning! If only Fox had given you all a chance to find the show. I saw the commercials for it before it ever aired on Fox and waited 3 weeks for the first episode! When it came on, I was in front of the screen waiting. I was not a huge Whedon fan, just thought the show looked really cool. For the most part, I watched every episode, but I missed a couple due to time change, pre-empt, etc. I was always so ticked to realize I had missed an episode. (Actually, the only ones I missed were "Bushwhacked" and "Jaynestown". But "Jaynestown" for crying out loud! That was one of the best!) Anyway, I was totally fed up with Fox before they ever cancelled the show. But I really thought things would get better once the basketball was over and they could really give Firefly the attention it deserved. Alas, it was not to be. Anyway, I bought the DVD's as soon as they came out and immediately watched them all. I then hooked my mom and my daughter. When Serenity came out, we had 3 generations of Firefly-lovin' women at the theater on opening day. As we were leaving, I saw my sister-in-law (who I also lent my DVD's to, until she bought her own.) She was with her own group of converts. HeHe. Sometimes I feel like I've joined the Jehovah's Witnesses, my need to spread the word is overwhelming!

FOLLOWMAL

Friday, April 7, 2006 2:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by FlatTop:
Does anyone know if you can wear out a DVD

I have, FlatTop, wore out my first set, have since replaced it and going to get another set.
For backup. Gotta have backup.

Like everyone here practically, I fell in love with Firefly the first time I saw it. Was waiting for SciFi Fridays.. SG-1, and there it was. And I was hooked. First time I saw Mal.
Bought the series right away. Watched it all back to back.. couldn't stop, didn't want to.

Then went and saw the BDM at the theater multiple times, each time leaving the theater reluctantly. I googled Firefly right away after my first viewing too, and wound up here at this shiny place. It's home. And I'm never leaving.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

JEHANE

Friday, April 7, 2006 4:41 PM

My best friend told me about it last year shortly before the movie was released. I didn't manage to go and see it but my friend was joined in another one of my friends in virtually harrassing me: "Go on, buy Firefly. You'll love it. You have to see it first before you can watch the movie. Now go on, buy it. It's a great show" and so on. So I finally gave in and ordered the box set.

I had no clue what to expect; all my friends had told me about the show was that it was by Joss Whedon (knowing very well that I love Buffy and Angel) and that it was a SciFi-western-hybrid. So I started watching the show, starting with the pilot and having some severe problems understanding every single word (I refused to buy the German version because usually the dubbing is just plain awful) resp. following the story line. Also, it was very, very confusing to have nine equally important characters - and I must admit that I was confused enough to mix up Jayne and Kaylee, thinking "Jayne. Girl's name. Must be that mechanic."

Anyways, I watched the pilot, moved on to "Train Job" and "Bushwacked". By then, it was about 1 a.m. and I had to force myself to switch of the dvd-player although I really wanted to see more. The following evenings were dedicated to "Firefly" *g* I tried to make it last as long as possible, knowing there were only 14 episodes, inwardly cursing Fox all the time and desperately hoping that the movie would be out on dvd soon. Well. Long story short, I'm addicted :)

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